A video from Charliechicpea (part 3 in a series) of this summer's Velocette Motorcycle Owners Club Rally at Stanford Hall, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England. Velocette has been described as one of the most beautiful hand built motorcycles ever made and a 350cc MkVIII Velocette was the machine rode by Bob Foster in 1950, when he was crowned world champion.
The Dorset branch of the UK Velocette Owners Club, will be holding its annual charity bike run, the Bob Foster Run on 7 October, 2007.
Plenty of noise, loads of smoke and lots of people in oily boiler suits, walking around the small UK village of Tarrant Hinton, all indicate that this weekend is the middle of the annual Great Dorset Steam Fair, 29 August to 2 September, 2007. A bit like an alternative Burning Man Festival, the fair rejoices in bygone days, when most people's knowledge of a carbon footprint was that which appeared on the seat of slacking apprentices. Then after a week of chaos, the site returns to green fields and pastural calm. As always, there is plenty to see and do; a day is hardly enough time to enjoy everything on offer. The Great Dorset Steam Fair is regarded as the leading steam and vintage preservation event in the world and is attended every year by well over 200,000 people from around the globe.
Cars in the Park is South Africa's premier, annual, display of vintage motor vehicles. It is held on the first Sunday in August, when around 2000 vintage and classic, cars and motor cycles, from all over Gauteng and other parts of South Africa are exhibited. This year 'Cars in the Park' is on 5 August, 2007, at Zwartkops race track, Pretoria. Last year almost 20 000 people enjoyed the exhibition; be prepared for a very full, fun-filled day.
An interesting exhibition of vintage photographs from the second half of the 19th century, is being run by the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. The exhibition in McCormick Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, runs through September 28, 2007 and is called "Global Views: 19th-century Travel Photographs".
Early travel photographs are proving to be an important record of architectural and social history and this exhibition particularly illustrates how travel photographers documented historical monuments, archaeological sites and scenes of daily life from the Middle East and Asia, 100 to 150 years ago.
This year 'Cars in the Park' is on 5 August, 2007, at Zwartkops race track, Pretoria. Last year almost 20 000 people enjoyed the exhibition; be prepared for a very full, fun-filled day.
